{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-1/paragraph-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Code of construction practice",
  "text": "(1) No stage of the onshore transmission works may commence until a code of construction practice (which must accord with the outline code of construction practice) for that stage has been submitted to and approved by Lincolnshire County Council following consultation, as appropriate, with—\n(a) the relevant planning authority;\n(b) the relevant lead local flood authority;\n(c) the relevant highway authority;\n(d) the Environment Agency;\n(e) the relevant statutory nature conservation body;\n(f) in respect of the surface water drainage strategy referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b), Anglian Water Services Limited;\n(g) if applicable, the MMO; and\n(h) if applicable, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in respect of works comprising Work No. 12 and 13.\n(2) The code of construction must include—\n(a) an air quality management plan (which accords with the outline air quality management plan);\n(b) a surface water drainage strategy (which accords with the outline surface water drainage strategy);\n(c) a noise and vibration management plan (which accords with the outline noise and vibration management plan);\n(d) a health, safety and environment plan;\n(e) a stakeholder communications plan;\n(f) a site waste management plan (which accords with the outline site waste management plan);\n(g) a flood management and response plan;\n(h) a pollution prevention and emergency incident response plan (which accords with the outline pollution prevention and emergency incident response plan);\n(i) an artificial light emissions plan;\n(j) a water quality management and mitigation plan;\n(k) where any land for that stage of the onshore transmission works is organically farmed, an organic land protocol (which accords with the outline organic land protocol); and\n(l) a soil management plan (which accords with the outline soil management plan).\n(3) Any code of construction practice submitted under sub-paragraph (1) may cover one or more stages of the onshore transmission works.\n(4) All construction works for each stage must be undertaken in accordance with the relevant approved code of construction practice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/138/schedule/1/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:07.056087+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}